Moving on into 2016 it’s time once again for Whewell’s Gazette your weekly #histSTM links list bringing all of the histories of science, technology and medicine that we could find in the infinite depths of cyberspace.

This is the twenty-sixth edition of the second year of Whewell’s Gazette meaning the year is half full or half empty depending on your point of view. We view ourselves as part of the on going infinite science show.

Quotes of the week:

“I would like 2016 to be the year in which people stop asserting that there is “a method” of science”. – Oliver Usher (@ojusher)

“Science is indeed merely a method of investigation. But it is the best one for answering many important questions”. – Christopher Chabris (@cfchabris)

Early photo of ‘Pickering’s Harem’, as the group of women computers assembled by Harvard astronomer Edward Charles Pickering was dubbed. The group included Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming and Antonia MaurySource: Wikimedia Commons